Heavens to betsy, it’s esteemed septuagenarian peer Lord Olivier starring in director Daniel Petrie’s 1977 farrago film The Betsy, a tacky movie adaptation of Harold Robbins’s best-selling 1971 novel, as Loren Hardeman Snr, aka Number […]
The sweet 1990 comedy Betsy’s Wedding is a tour-de-force for Alan Alda. Alda writes, directs and stars in this warm and funny comedy about a man who will do anything to give his kooky daughter […]
René Lefèvre stars as Michel, an impoverished Parisian artist who turns Paris upside-down in a desperate search for his winning million florins Dutch lottery ticket, left in the pocket of his old jacket, given away […]
Director Joseph Pevney’s 1952 film Meet Danny Wilson stars Frank Sinatra as Danny Wilson, a singer (what else!) who rises to the top of his profession, but gets mixed with racketeering hoods and is threatened […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 Italian film Medea emphasises the operatic nature of this tale, presumably the point of casting the iconic Maria Callas, and he uses her great, tragic face to huge effect. The beloved […]
Director Roger Donaldson’s 1985 film Marie [Marie: A True Story] is a good-hearted, conscientious, but insufficiently rousing biopic plus political drama, with Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, a 1958 Nashville battered wife who rises in […]
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